tit-tat-toe
Americannoun
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She had a family tartan—heather brown, with Lincoln green tit-tat-toe crisscrosses—and she had learned how to walk from a thousand years of strong-walking ancestors.
From The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
Here and there were stealthy games of tit-tat-toe, practiced, doubtless, behind the teacher's back.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell
A small boy was squalling in the seat opposite, and Carl took him from his tired mother and lured him into a game of tit-tat-toe.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
But if slates favored tit-tat-toe, they also favored ciphering, and nothing but good can come from that.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
That is, unless you Leaguers stop all forms of amusement but tit-tat-toe and puss-in-the-corner.”
From Rope by Holworthy Hall
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